Date:        Sun, 17 Feb 2002 13:20:56 +0100
    From:        Julio Merino <slink@unixbsd.org>
    Message-ID:  <20020217122056.GA1093@klamath.local>

  | I'm planning to install NetBSD and FreeBSD on the same disk (currently
  | they are on two different). The thing is that I would like to share
  | /home and swap, also in the same disk.
  | 
  | My question... where should I place those two partitions? In NetBSD's
  | disklabel or FreeBSD's one?

When I have done this (and I have from time to time), I put /home in
NetBSD's space (after all, home is NetBSD right) and swap in FreeBSD's
space.

When I set this up last (a while ago now) FreeBSD wouldn't install (at
least, not sure if it would run) without swap configured, so I had to
put swap in its space, NetBSD is quite happy to have no swap, so you can
easily add in the swap from the FreeBSD space later.

  | - If I add those two partitions to FreeBSD's disklabel, I'll have to
  |   add them by hand in NetBSD's disklabel, right?

Yes.

  | - If I add those two partitions to NetBSD's disklabel, FreeBSD will be
  |   able to access them directly, though it will give some weird
  |   warnings.

Not sure about the warnings, but yes.

kre